zap2xml.exe and zap2it.com are dead. any free alternatives? (3 Viewers)
United States of America
For a windows system zap2it workaround. Your logon information works at gracenote site.
nslookup tvlistings.gracenote.com
What ever ipaddress/s comes back add those ipaddresses to your hosts file at c:Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
(e.g.
52.32.149.165 tvlistings.zap2it.com #replacement for sudden removal of zap2it to tvlistings.gracenote.com
54.212.214.31 tvlistings.zap2it.com #replacement for sudden removal of zap2it to tvlistings.gracenote.com
34.212.143.155 tvlistings.zap2it.com #replacement for sudden removal of zap2it to tvlistings.gracenote.com
).
example batch file (.bat) to run as a scheduled task
"C:\Program Files\Zap2XML\zap2xml.exe" -u yourusernamegoeshere -p yourpassword -d 14 -o "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\xmltv\tvguide.xml"
This should fix the issue and you will get your tv listings working again as they did prior to the abrupt change of domain name change.
nslookup tvlistings.gracenote.com
What ever ipaddress/s comes back add those ipaddresses to your hosts file at c:Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
(e.g.
52.32.149.165 tvlistings.zap2it.com #replacement for sudden removal of zap2it to tvlistings.gracenote.com
54.212.214.31 tvlistings.zap2it.com #replacement for sudden removal of zap2it to tvlistings.gracenote.com
34.212.143.155 tvlistings.zap2it.com #replacement for sudden removal of zap2it to tvlistings.gracenote.com
).
example batch file (.bat) to run as a scheduled task
"C:\Program Files\Zap2XML\zap2xml.exe" -u yourusernamegoeshere -p yourpassword -d 14 -o "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\xmltv\tvguide.xml"
This should fix the issue and you will get your tv listings working again as they did prior to the abrupt change of domain name change.